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Mr. Surly

@nuancesystems.com
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Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. Old, Nerdy.

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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 27/09/2026
@slateauto.bsky.social Are you going to participate in the California MyFirstEV program?
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 25/09/2026
Looks like I'll be looking for a new email host. Because Migadu isn't working. Again.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 26/08/2026
Yay, Tariffs, so much winning. Thanks Trump, you asshole.
It's a $58 shopping cart total with an added $11 tariffs line
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 26/08/2026
The wrong 80-year-old died.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 05/08/2026
How does Lyft stay in business? I used it for the first time today, and holy crap the app is bad.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 16/07/2026
🎲 I had a bag salad last night. Everything ok so far.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Exhibit 1 for his trial for violations of our First Amendment rights.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 22/04/2026
I've never seen a game so actively hostile to players as Rain World. Zero information on how to control your character. Apparently zero key or mouse bindings by default. I've had to alt-F4 out of it twice now because after the game starts, nothing works.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 16/04/2026
Me leaving the grocery store: "Man, all I need now is some yellow bumps to shake the ever living fuck out of my cart! That'd be great!"
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 11/03/2026
I gotta call out NXP (nxp.com) here: Get email from NXP. Click Unsubscribe. "What's your email address?" ❌ Strike one "Please log in" ❌ Strike two "Your password is out of date, change your password" ❌ Strike 3 "We sent you a confirmation email, enter the code" ❌ Strike fucking FOUR.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 11/03/2026
This post is about soldering and electronics. I finally got around to trying out the Pinecil soldering iron tonight soldering up the badges we picked up from @vcfsocal.bsky.social
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 10/03/2026
Regime change begins at home.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 10/03/2026
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TheOriginalMizD @originalzuzu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I’d like to ask the men’s @usahockey.bsky.social team WHAT WERE YOU THINKING by admitting that lunkhead to your celebration, which he had zero part in? Asking for an entire country. …
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 10/02/2026
Picture of Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants approaching his home (a rock) and seeing a bunch of eyeballs looking at him from inside his home.  The rock is labeled "Discord Refugees," Patrick is labeled "TeamSpeak," with the caption "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE"
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 31/01/2026
Do people from Boston think that crows fly around saying "CAR! CAR!"?
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 27/01/2026
If you send me an email with an unsubscribe link that takes me to a web page that then asks me what my email address is, you need to fuck off and turn in your developer card.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 29/12/2025
Hoooly shit, when did Rotten Tomato's website get so _bad_?
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 28/12/2025
I've given up on trying to get Kodi to ... work much at all. Jellyfin seems _much_ more friendly.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 04/12/2025
If you put this on a website in 2025, you've failed as a web developer. Idempotency for this sort of thing has been a solved problem since before the WWW.
Text that states: "To avoid duplicate charges, do not refresh this page."
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/12/2025
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
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Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 12/11/2025
New rule: People working with/under the executive branch are not eligible for Presidential pardons for crimes committed while doing so.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Michelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
California ‼️ YES ON PROP 50 Not registered ? ⬇️ Visit caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov for a list of early voting locations where you can complete the Same Day Voter Registration Process Need to register on Election Day? Use our polling place lookup tool to find your local polling location
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Early Voting | California Secretary of State
Search records online for California Corporations, Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/10/2025
RIGHT ON 👊🏽 I voted YES on 50 (a temporary measure to level the playing field) and my ballot was already counted. Join me— remember to vote, and tell your friends and neighbors to do the same. #VoteYesOnProp50
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 23/10/2025
YES ON 50
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blu…
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025
In November, I am voting yes on Prop 50 and making sure my friends and family do too. This was legit my commute this morning. If you zoom in, there are buzzards flying overhead. TRUMP • REVENGE • CHAOS • CORRUPTION
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Your threats are a joke & our jokes are threats! Got it.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 19/09/2025
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Commodore Memes @commodorememes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
And just like that, the right wing proved that the only problem they had with cancel culture, was that it was only ever done from the grassroots up, instead of hand-in-glove government-corporation style, as god had intended.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 18/09/2025
President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement can, should, must, and will gargle thumbtacks. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
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DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security
Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 07/09/2025
This better secretly have a whole Onion Digital Surveillance Squad inside doing facial recognition on all the ICE agents
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 23/08/2025
"only place I'd ever stop" ... "mob fights" Does he think that all non-Cracker-Barrel restaurants are some sort of post-apocalyptic Mad-Max-esque hellhole? WTF?
James Woods post from Twitter: "Cracker Barrel was the only place I'd ever stop.  No mob fights, fun corny atmosphere, and delicious food when you're hungry and tired.  I'll never stop[sic] foot in one again."
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 15/08/2025
I'm 100% going to vote for CA redistricting in November, and I encourage anyone else in CA to do the same.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 02/08/2025
Thought of a joke: Wife: I asked you take out the trash ... Bill Withers: I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ...
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A good friend of mine is helping to raise money to support an asylum-seeking mom of two (and soon three) in Kentucky, if you have the means to help out gofund.me/afcd1f1a
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Donate to Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky, organized by Lauren Cagle
Hi, I’m Cagle! I’m fundraising for an asylum-seeking mother… Lauren Cagle needs your support for Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 13/07/2025
So, after he fires Bondi (who said there are no files), that means he will appoint someone different, who ... does know about the files?
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 09/07/2025
Sitting here at home thinking "is someone smoking weed outside?" No, it was an actual skunk.
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 05/07/2025
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 02/07/2025
@stephenking.bsky.social You have some influence in Maine -- can you help give the boot to Susan Collins? Perhaps endorse someone running against her?
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Rensong (she/her/they) @renenberg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The GOP's plan is to traumatize us into apathy. You might say, "I'm not sad, I'm mad!" It is also understood by behaviorists and seasoned organizers that anger is not a sustainable motivator. We need sustained resistance, so it is up to each of us to educate and pace ourselves. Pls RP
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Mobilize
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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Mr. Surly @nuancesystems.com · 26/06/2025
Kitchen Window
A photo through the kitchen window
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